Josef Schwemminger (21 June 1804, Vienna - 12 January 1895, Vienna) was an Austrian landscape painter.
Life and work
editHis father, Anton Schwemminger (1764-1808), was a porcelain painter. His older brother, Heinrich, also became a painter. His sister, Theresia, married the painter Karl Schubert; a brother of the composer Franz Schubert.[1]
From 1817 to 1827, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; specializing in landscapes, with motifs relating to the nationalistic concept of "Heimat". He travelled throughout Austria, Bavaria and Northern Italy. Many of his works were reproduced and distributed as steel engravings. In 1848, he became a member of the Academy and, in 1868, joined the Vienna Künstlerhaus.[2]
He died, at the age of ninety, in Vienna's Alsergrund district.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Felix Czeike (Ed.): "Schwemmingergasse". In: Historisches Lexikon Wien. Vol.5, Kremayr & Scheriau, 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7, pg.184 (Online)
- ^ H. Grimm: "Schwemminger, Joseph". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 12, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7, p. 46.
Further reading
edit- Constantin von Wurzbach: "Schwemminger, Joseph." In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria). Part 32 Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, p. 367–369 (digitalised).
External links
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Media related to Josef Schwemminger at Wikimedia Commons
- More works by Schwemminger @ ArtNet